At each index rebalance, all investments qualifying as sustainable are screened against certain minimum environmental and social indicators. Where an investment has been identified as being associated with acti
The World Bank's Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy benchmarks policies and regulatory frameworks at the country level on energy access, energy efficiency, and renewable energy [27]. The World Energy Council's Energy Trilemma Index [28] provides an assessment of countries' abilities to ...
Energy transition Geopolitics Middle East North Africa Rentier state 1. Introduction Endowed with half of the world's known oil and gas reserves, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)1 region has become during the second half of the 20th century a cornerstone of the global energy architecture...
Climate principal adverse impact indicators will be assessed using BlackRock’s proprietary Heightened Scrutiny Framework which identifies investments which present significant climate-related risk by assessing: (i) carbon emissions; (ii) readiness for the net zero transition; and (iii) climate-related di...
Drawn from EIU’s Country Analysis service, our business environment rankings assess 91 indicators to measure the attractiveness of doing business in 82 countries and territories. Find out more Democracy Index Democracy is under pressure. As authoritarianism tightens its grip, democracies are struggling ...
The running plan pays attention to the each individual's running ability, based on individual physiological indicators, running power level and training conditions, and recommends training in accordance with the individual's aptitude, organises workouts of differing difficulty levels, tailored for differen...
The impacts of the power transition on achieving global SDGs Here, we translate the changes in environmental and socioeconomic indicators into global SDG progress using the United Nations SDG approach (see the Methods section). Our analysis shows that the global SDG index score, defined as the ov...
Third, some indicators of innovation economy and innovation ecosystem have been adjusted. For example, the ‘renewable energy technology patents’ has been added to the previous patent indicators of ‘artificial intelligence patents’ and ‘integrated circuit manufacturing patents’ to reflect the low-car...
one of China’s key economic challenges. She said the next step for the government’s consumer goods trade-in and large-scale equipment upgrade programs is to accelerate the allocation of funds. China’s latest monthly economic data dump showed a slowdown in three key economic indicators in Apr...
International cooperation has become a global consensus to solve environmental problems. This paper selects the top 30 countries in the global innovation index as the research sample, based on Patent Cooperation Treaties (PCT) data jointly applied in the field of new energy, constructs the internatio...